Kittel v. Kittel’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 410 So. 2d 501 - Whitten v. Progressive Cas. Ins. Co. (1982), Perkins State Bank v. Connolly (1980)
1 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on McGregor v. Provident Trust Co. · 108 So. 2d 289 - Jacksonville Express. Auth. v. Henry G. Du Pree Co. · Smith v. Gifford · 85 So. 2d 619 - Great American Indemnity Company v. Williams · Simpson v. Simpson
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is an elemental principle of law in this State that attorney's fees may be awarded ... only under three circumstances, viz: (1) where authorized by contract; (2) where authorized by a constitutional legislative enactment; and (3) where awarded for services performed by an attorney in creating or bringing into the court a fund or other property.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.